Musíme Si Pomáhat
1939. Occupied Czechoslovakia. Josef Cizek (Bolek Polívka) and his wife Marie Marie Cizková (Anna Sisková) watch as their Jewish neighbors and employer, the Wieners, are moved from their home to a very small spare room in the home. Two years later, the family is then taken away by the Nazis.
In 1943, David Wiener (Csongor Kassai), the son of Josef's employer and the only survivor of the entire family, returns to the street in the dark of night and asks Josef and Maria for help. Without hesitation, the Christian couple knows they must help this young man survive so they secret him away in their basement at great personal risk.
The Cizeks have to be ever vigilant and clever to keep the secret, especially from their nosy friend Horst Prohaska (Jaroslav Dusek), a Nazi collaborator with a little Hitler mustache, who is quite smitten with Marie.
Truly a marvelous film with enormous humor despite the horrors of the Nazi regime and all it was. Definitely a 'not-to-be-missed' experience. Stunning cinematography and near-sepia lighting only enhance the story. Subtitles.
Writer/director Jan Hrebejk won the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize from the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema "for daring an approach to the theme of collaboration which is rareley seen in contemporary film, as well as for the simple human statement that good people can be found on both sides of historical barricades." The film, director, writers and actors were nominated for and won many other significant Czech and international film awards.
Rated PG-13 for some violence and sexual content.
viewed Jan-2008
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1939. Occupied Czechoslovakia. Josef Cizek (Bolek Polívka) and his wife Marie Marie Cizková (Anna Sisková) watch as their Jewish neighbors and employer, the Wieners, are moved from their home to a very small spare room in the home. Two years later, the family is then taken away by the Nazis.
In 1943, David Wiener (Csongor Kassai), the son of Josef's employer and the only survivor of the entire family, returns to the street in the dark of night and asks Josef and Maria for help. Without hesitation, the Christian couple knows they must help this young man survive so they secret him away in their basement at great personal risk.
The Cizeks have to be ever vigilant and clever to keep the secret, especially from their nosy friend Horst Prohaska (Jaroslav Dusek), a Nazi collaborator with a little Hitler mustache, who is quite smitten with Marie.
Truly a marvelous film with enormous humor despite the horrors of the Nazi regime and all it was. Definitely a 'not-to-be-missed' experience. Stunning cinematography and near-sepia lighting only enhance the story. Subtitles.
Writer/director Jan Hrebejk won the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize from the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema "for daring an approach to the theme of collaboration which is rareley seen in contemporary film, as well as for the simple human statement that good people can be found on both sides of historical barricades." The film, director, writers and actors were nominated for and won many other significant Czech and international film awards.
Rated PG-13 for some violence and sexual content.
viewed Jan-2008
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